John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

One pastor said to me when I was in a revival campaign, "You talk as if Satan were out after you all the time and opposing you! Satan never bothers me." I said to him, "If you twisted his tail as much as I do and got as many drunkards saved as I do, he would be against you."
The Devil is working against the Lord and against the salvation of souls and against out-and-out Christians. - John R. Rice

So it is with the Christian schools. Yale, Harvard, Brown, Princeton, Oberlin, Northwestern, University of Chicago-- all these schools were founded primarily for training preachers in the Christian religion. They are gone now. Yes, they grow rich and powerful and scholarly, so after awhile scholarship gets to be more important than the power of God, and they drift away. God then has to start some other schools. - John R. Rice

It is a sad thing, but here is a church. They say, "Here is a professor in a college nearby. (Oh, he has a Ph.D. degree. I can almost see that little crown of glory on his head, that halo.) Let him teach the Bible to us." He is an infidel if he hasn't been converted, if he doesn't believe the Bible, if he doesn't have Christ in his heart as his own Saviour. But you say, "He has been to college, th...en to the seminary, and has written books." Then all the more he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. And the fact he is in sheep's clothing ought to make you even more scared of him. You ought not to have him in your church, you are not to hear him speak, you are not to have him teach your class and God knows, you are not to have him in your pulpit. The Bible plainly says, "He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." - John R. Rice

 

Someone says, "To be a Christian is to be like Christ." No, to be a Christian is to trust in Jesus Christ. In some small way-- so small that sometimes you can't even see it or tell it-- since when one is born again he has Christ within, the Holy Spirit within, and so one is made just a little bit-- not much-- like Christ. But one day I will awake in His likeness. But it is not being like Christ th...at saves you; it is Christ Himself that saves you. It is not simply faith in Christ, but when you trust Him, it is Christ himself who does the saving. "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me." Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me." When you come to Jesus, then you get salvation. - John R.

[Earlier this year I started reading a chapter a day in a book by Evangelist John R. Rice- consequently I have more of his quotes than previously. Rather than not have quotes by others I am making a second "Quotes of the week" page. One in general, the other devoted to Brother Rice. - Rick]